Biography

Monaco noted family and daughter of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco. An independent, willful person of a definitely colorful life style, she was modeling and producing a fashion line by 1986. She married Daniel Ducruet 7/01/1995 after they had two out-of-wedlock children, Louis, 11/26/1992 and Pauline 5/04/1994. She filed for divorce on 9/16/1996 after the media released pictures of him romping nude with Fili Houteman, Miss Bare Breasts of Belgium 1995. The divorce was made final by court order on October 4, 1996.

Stephanie and her sister, Caroline, were both comfortable in the limelight. Stephanie seemed to enjoy her savory lifestyle, much to her father's distress. She lost her mother, Princess Grace, in an auto accident 9/13/1982 in which she only received minor injuries.

On 7/15/1998 she once more made news by giving birth to a little girl, Camille Marie Kelly, without naming the father. Bets are on a recent romantic attachment with Jean-Raymond Gottlieb, in his early 30s, a former bodyguard of 18 months. They broke up as he was "little accustomed to notoriety," however, he visited Princess Camille at the hospital.

In January 2000 she met Franco and Claudine Knie at a circus festival in Monaco. Many youngsters dream of running away to join a circus but Stephanie did so at age 35 along with her three kids, March 2000, while Claudine moved out with her 12-year-old autistic son. The princess set up her kingdom in a 40-ft trailer with Franco, the owner of the Swiss National Circus. Franco never bothered to get a divorce and by early 2002, Stephanie tired of life in the big top and returned to Monaco's palace.

After romantic adventures with two bodyguards, a nightclub owner, a ski instructor and a waiter, the democratic princess, 37, began keeping company with Richard Lucas, a palace butler or chef in 2002.

The daughter of Princess Grace (Kelly) and Prince Rainier married a Portuguese acrobat in a September 12, 2003 civil service in Geneva, Switzerland. Within hours of the wedding, the groom, Adans Lopez Peres, age 29, was back on the job, performing in the Knie National Circus in Geneva. The couple reportedly met in 2001. The only members of the royal family to attend the wedding were Stephanie’s three children.

On April 6, 2005 at 6:35 AM her father, Prince Rainier, died in Monaco.